Earlier this year I had a RR tournament in which the winner was to play a four game match against the defending champion. The match ended up 4-0, and after the third game, there was no problem with the players playing a fourth, but I was wondering, since this wasn’t a match just for fun, what if they had not wanted to play a fourth game since the match was already decided after three. Is there a rule that a match has to be an even number of games, and should there be?
To take this a step further, if I were to get someone to agree to a handicap match in which I get White all ten games I suppose that would be ratable since there is no color reporting system, but should it be?
Alex Relyea